 
Faith and Fear in Flushing made its debut on Feb. 16, 2005, the brainchild of two longtime friends and lifelong Met fans. Greg Prince discovered the Mets when he was 6, during the magical summer of 1969. He is a Long Island-based writer, editor and communications consultant. Contact him here. Jason Fry is a Brooklyn writer whose first memories include his mom leaping up and down cheering for Rusty Staub. Check out his other writing here. Got something to say? Leave a comment, or email us at faithandfear@gmail.com. (Sorry, but we have no interest in ads, sponsored content or guest posts.) Need our RSS feed? It's here. Visit our Facebook page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
Author’s baby picture, before author discovered shirts and pants. So I’m born on the last day of 1962, the same year the Mets came into this world, and now it’s 62 years later, and I’ve turned 62. This feels a bit like a Mets fan’s Logan’s Run endgame. Yet I will go out on a […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1962 Mets, Birthdays, Metsian Milestone Birthdays Without knowing what they paid, I’d say the Mets got an excellent rate on their weekend spa treatment. They’ve rarely entered a Monday appearing more relaxed and ready to face whatever awaits them. In this case, it’s a playoff chase in September. The 2024 White Sox will make anybody look and feel fantastic. The 2024 White […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Francisco Lindor, Garrett Crochet, Pablo Reyes, Sean Manaea, September, Spa Treatment, Steve Carlton, Sweeps, Tom Seaver, White Sox The authors of this book are drawn to baseball’s great losers. Not to individuals, but to entire teams. We prefer our calamities as the product of collective effort, a shared culpability not unlike Watergate. […] Besides, to err is human, to screw up royally requires a team effort. 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, J.D. Martinez, Legends, Tylor Megill, White Sox, Worsts The Chicago White Sox ended their 21-game losing streak Tuesday night, preventing them from owning outright the worst skid in American League history and momentarily pausing their pursuit of hallowed infamy that for 62 years has belonged to us. But as players and managers usually say following a loss rather than a win, it was […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Brendan Rodgers, Colt .45s, Colt Stadium, Coors Field, Curfews, Dick Young, Futility, Harrison Bader, Jimmy Breslin, Kris Bryant, Luis Severino, Mark Vientos, Marv Throneberry, Rain Delays, Team History, Ties, Tigers, Torn Dugout Netting, White Sox Mets pitching on Wednesday was not a strong suit, an observation easily borne out by the 8-3 pounding the Minnesota Twins pasted on the staff as an up-and-down homestand concluded with a harsh thud, hardly providing an auspicious prelude to the pending Road Trip From Hell. Luis Severino (3 IP, 6 H, 2 BB, 6 […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Alphabetical Order, David Aardsma, Don Aase, Don Zimmer, Huascar Brazoban, Jack Benny, Matt Gage, Obsessions to Stay Awake For, Team History, Tyler Zuber You might know Ken MacKenzie was the only Met pitcher to post a winning record in 1962. As calling-card facts go, it is distinctive and enduring and, within the context of a team that inspired its beat writers to track what Leonard Koppett dubbed the “neggie” or negative statistic (like the Mets’ failure to win […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Ken MacKenzie, Moment of Silence, Winning Pitchers The scouting report I have cobbled together regarding Joe Christopher’s New York Mets career of 1962 through 1965 is he could run pretty well; he could hit pretty well; fielding was optional; and none of it much mattered, because to those who fell hard for the early Mets, Joe’s most outstanding tool was personality. Anecdotal […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1964 Mets, Joe Christopher, Moment of Silence Someday in the future, a precocious Amapola Chloe Lindor might look at her birthday, consider her father’s occupation, and ask, “Daddy, what did you to in the first game you started after I was born?” And her dad Francisco will be able to rightly tell her, “I hit a home run for you. What made […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1987 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Expectations, False Hope, Father's Day, Francisco Lindor, Karma, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Marv Throneberry, Nolan Arenado, Precedent, Ralph Kiner, Team History, Tim McCarver A walker can examine our past and present up close and come to some hazy conclusion over where we might be heading, not unlike Alexis de Tocqueville and Charles Dickens and so many others did when wandering similar byways during another uneasy patch of our history. If you took every 90 feet worth of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2022 Mets, A's, Francisco Lindor, Interleague Play, Jeurys Familia, Kodai Senga, Neil King Jr., Oakland Coliseum, Old Friends, Possums, Team History, Unicorn Scores, Walks Someday, perhaps, there will be another Kodai who plays for the New York Mets. I’d like to think that soon there will be a son of Mets fans, and his parents will name him for the righthander who left the Miami Marlins mostly spooked in his first two outings in the United States, the second […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Hobie Landrith, Kodai Senga, Moment of Silence, Team History |
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